Are you being willfully obtuse or do you actually believe that's true of everyone? There are so many reasons why someone might have a laptop in such a situation but not be able to use a hotspot on their phone - it's not even worth listing them.
That isn't what this thread suggested; I was supporting plausibility of the GP's claim never to have used public Wifi because of good 4G; stating they could still have used a laptop in public. My wording was also explicit that this isn't always an option.
2) it is extremely common to add storage to existing servers. Only slightly less; RAM, CPUs etc. not to mention how often it is cost-effective to replace broken components.
Wireguard to where? Another ISP/VPN that can also sell/MITM your traffic just as well? Non-residential exit IPs are also very often blocked by many websites.
Residential ISPs are well setup for monitoring home traffic (and legally required to in most places). A VPS in a different jurisdiction is vastly less likely to be good at it.
You occasionally get blocked, but not that often if you can putup with a few more captchas. Can't remember it ever being more then a minor inconvenience and well worth this cost.
My home internet is 5G, and many, many websites are blocked or have infinite captcha loops... even well-known sites. Etsy is blocked. Reddit/Discord/Locals is blocked. Archive.is only captcha loops. Even libera IRC is blocked. Trying to buy products online often gets the order flagged or canceled as a potential bot or VPN. IPs are rotated often so I unfortunately have to share bad-reputation IPs with people who keep the addresses on global blacklists like DroneBL that are used by many sites. Even 4chan blocks most of the IPs I get because other people post CP from there.
Trying to use a VPS/cloud IP or well-known VPN provider, the experience for me is just as bad or worse.
For some, the issue is a lot worse than you think.
So a high latency connection that is also susceptible to atmospheric effects and run by a madman is okay?
I am still on DSL because there is no fiber or 5g internet here yet*. And I live on the edge of an area with 500k people. DSL is good enough for 4k streaming video and anything else I need and costs me $65.
Why on earth would I want to make things worse by using starlink?
Of course, if I lived 50 miles from a gas station, that is different. But living rural has many risks and downsides that the people out there accept.
*This is the real issue. If corporations had to put its customers(and employees) on the same level as shareholders(very few actually benefit the corporation directly because they don't buy stock directly from the company) a lot of problems would be solved. Or, if companies realized that taking care of the customer and employees first means that everything else will follow.
It's hard to take the rest of your comment seriously when you're starting your comment off with this. Independent reviews says latency is in the 20-30ms range. That's in the same range (if not better) than cellular internet, and even though coax/DSL might lower, you won't really notice unless you're a competitive esports streamer or running a HFT bot out of your basement.
You clearly talk a lot but ask very few questions and make a lot of assumptions.
My only other option here is a FWA connection that is 1/10th the speed, it’s even more subjected to weather and costs me the same. That is it.
There is no DSL good for anything. Say what you want about the man (which I’m definitely not a fan of at this point) but Starlink is solving a real issue for many people.
I have been considering options and it seems like 4G has coverage pretty much all over the USA. If that isn't an option, I would consider hughesnet, it seems like they have a cheaper lowest plan than starlink. What do you think?
I’m in Europe. Where I live 4g is spotty at best. My two options are Starlink that gives me a 350/50 connection or a legacy provider that has a FWA 30/5 at the same price.
That’s it, those are the two options. Difference in price between those two is 4€
There are massive areas in the US not covered by 5G, or any cell service. Are you just assuming that coverage is 100% everywhere?
Most places I'm at with 5G also have really poor speeds, usually under 10Mbps download with fairly high latency. Not really suitable for a primary internet connection.
Take your RV for an extended stay at the National Parks. RV parks are full of Starlinkers and I *love* the service.
Roadtrips with kids are so much better too. The residential dish's in-motion performance is phenomenal and it's not even made for that.
Very resource constrained systems, systems where consistent admin between *BSD and Linux is important. Containers where you have reasons to break the single process practice.
> On the display side, Asahi Linux developers have been working on the DisplayPort connectivity. For that there are now experimental DisplayPort patches for Asahi Linux via their "fairydust" tree.
The is a huge difference between: I assume my crappy router's firewall works and is configured safe by default. And I assume my crappy router's doesn't forward ports by default.
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